In leading a Reunion User Group today, we were using the Help Manual to learn about mapping and geocoding. We learned that if you have a Place geocoded, and then you make a change to the Place name (such as a spelling correction) in the Places sidebar, the geocoding will not change. BUT, if you are in a person's Edit Panel, and you make a change in the Places field, if you had previously geocoded that Place, the geocoding would go away and you'd need to get the coordinates again.
Okay fine, that's good to know. But then, someone mentioned that I typed out the word Pennsylvania in Place names, but using PA would be shorter and not make chart boxes as wide when making a chart. Since I was using a dummy family file, I decided to demonstrate Find and Replace. I changed all instances of Pennsylvania in the Place field to PA.
But then when looking back at the Places sidebar a few minutes later, now none of them in Pennsylvania were geocoded, i.e., they had lost their geocoding. One of the group members suggested that using Find and Replace had probably eliminated them all. In other words, the Find and Replace acted as if I was changing the Place names within the Place fields in the Edit Person panel, NOT as if I was just changing the spelling in the Places sidebar.
Is this a correct interpretation of why I lost the geocoding on all the Pennsylvania places? If so, this little extra fact should be added to the Help Manual, so those who care a lot about using geocoding will be forewarned.
Okay fine, that's good to know. But then, someone mentioned that I typed out the word Pennsylvania in Place names, but using PA would be shorter and not make chart boxes as wide when making a chart. Since I was using a dummy family file, I decided to demonstrate Find and Replace. I changed all instances of Pennsylvania in the Place field to PA.
But then when looking back at the Places sidebar a few minutes later, now none of them in Pennsylvania were geocoded, i.e., they had lost their geocoding. One of the group members suggested that using Find and Replace had probably eliminated them all. In other words, the Find and Replace acted as if I was changing the Place names within the Place fields in the Edit Person panel, NOT as if I was just changing the spelling in the Places sidebar.
Is this a correct interpretation of why I lost the geocoding on all the Pennsylvania places? If so, this little extra fact should be added to the Help Manual, so those who care a lot about using geocoding will be forewarned.
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